I sometimes get Word documents from my co-workers to put their content on the web. Sometimes, the changes that the previous editor of the document made are visible.

Additions are underlined and deletions are stricken through. Now I have to click on every addition/deletion to accept it.

Is it possible to somehow accept all changes and be done with it? Or even better, ignore the history all together? I couldn't care less what the last edits where, I'm just the guy who cleans up the formatting and puts it on the web :)

I'm a Linux user. Using word processors isn't part of my daily routine (I'm a programmer), but my co-workers only give me the evil eye when I ask them for valid HTML instead of Word documents :)
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Benjamin WohlwendJan 28 '10 at 20:15

I have colleagues who insist that everything, even the tiniest fragment of text, must be in Word or Powerpoint format. I was once sent the source code of a webpage as a Word document.
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paviumJan 28 '10 at 20:31

@pavium Tell them: copying & pasting code to/from MSWord is dangerous. You can inadvertently copy MSWord special characters, i.e. the MSWord single quote ‘ ’ which is different than ' '. If you get MSWord single quotes in your code, and the compiler doesn't catch it, you'll have a terrible time figuring out why your application keeps crashing.
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DWongJan 28 '10 at 22:24